QOTW:  "Needless to say, I find dealing with this dilemma more frustration
than it's worth, and so will not be releasing my application on any platform
except the Mac." - Kevin Walzer on c.l.t over some minor usability issue on
unixoids

"Tile actually has *fewer* features than any of the other major Tk add-on
widget sets.  That's sort of a design goal..." - Joe English


POTW:
    Tk9/NexTk Demo 3 Starkit ( by Geoge Peter Staplin )

    I've been doing a lot of work on the Tk9-related code last week.  I 
    finally have something to show for it.
    The Starkit includes binaries for NetBSD x86, Linux x86, and Windows x86.
    See some of the changes here, and download the Starkit for Tclkit 8.5a4:
    http://wiki.tcl.tk/Tk9
    Tclkit 8.5a4 is available from the download matrix here:
        download: http://www.equi4.com/pub/tk/downloads.html
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/6fe30123cf897cee


ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
    unix shell command length limit
    with a warning against usage of csh:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/2d406457956bedb3

    XOTcl bug ?
    morphing into an educational discourse.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/26b2e0ac8edfab7c

    Project size
    The Way to Megastructures:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/441d1b1d9bbaaf46
    
    Icon question/Silk
    Some Icons available for unrestricted general use.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/4d97fe0907b5aea6

    This program just keeps coming back
    Faster P*Cat, displaying an abundance of numeric data in a sensible way 
    and acceptable speed :
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/fc4d4ed01128c880

    can we choose the Postscript Level ? (canvas postscript export )
    Differences in features and filesize for postscript level1 and level2 
    and PDF:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/11e9cec08d1b22b5

    Gadget error!
    arlie trying to test the examples from the wiki induces a smarting Dan to po
p up 
        from sleep:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/9ccd27a3576d9ffe

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
    TIP 257 by Donal K. Fellows : Object Orientation for Tcl
        There is now a partially working version of the tip257 implementation fo
r 
        people to test out. It is at about the 
        point where you can create an object, give it some methods, and run the 
methods. 
        However, constructors, destructors and inheritance do not yet work. 
        ( DKF, 10 Aug 2006 )
            ref: http://wiki.tcl.tk/14754
    
URBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this week TEN years ago:
    Grid widget resize frenzy
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/91a7a778647e62a9

    ANNOUNCE: SGML editor base class
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.sgml/browse_thread/thread/afc837fb99ae194e

    Tiny Command Language
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/dc53d9de86755458

    ANNOUNCE - TxRx, an ONC RPC extension for Tcl
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/eb3acf3f54a43707

  
Everything Tcl-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
    The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
        http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome
    comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
    An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about

    The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
	http://www.tcl.tk

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher.
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
    of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
    maintain references to their own software:
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
    boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things 
    Tcl.
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/969
    There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl

    ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
        http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
    along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest (but
    needs to validate many of the links).
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even 
    though clta itself is dormant.
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

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